How to win Nigerian Scholarships in 2019 – Ultimate Revelation

For freshers, you might be a little flabbergasted when you hear that a company can pay you annually just so you can read. Well, that is no longer news as we are partakers of the hypothesis.

By the end of this post, it is just impossible to hear that you could not win at least one of out over 90+ scholarships available for Nigerian students. Why? This article covers everything you need to know including the nature of questions you are asked and pdf materials you can use to prepare, to position yourself for a year of endless victories.

This post is birthed out from a wide range of experiences from inception to the just concluded 2018 scholarship programs, crafted specifically to the freshman, 100 and 200Level students, students from polytechnic and colleges of education.

Before going through this article, grab a cup of coffee and take your time to read every letter to the end, because in this article contains the very ingredient you need to smile by December 2019. We drop new guides every year: See the guide for 2018

Let’s step on the gas.

SIDE NOTE: THE 5 TOP Scholarships in Nigeria and their total pay

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

TOTAL WORTH (NGN)

PTDF

2,000,000

AGBAMI- MEDICAL

800, 000

MTN Foundation

800, 000

SHELL/SPDC

600, 000

TOTAL E & P

600, 000

Brief Introduction to Nigerian Scholarships

Scholarship programs are given out by companies as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) to facilitate the education and skill of their country of operation. However, not just companies, individuals, Churches, Muslim Community, Foundations, the Government also give out scholarships to students.

Eligibility Requirements

Generally speaking, to be eligible for most of the scholarship programs,

Studying in the field as specified by the individual scholarship program

Must be a Nigerian

How do you win scholarship(s) in Nigeria?

Restrictions are placed on the number of scholarship awards you can win, this restrictions become detrimental if the scholarship program(s) in question is organized by the same joint venture. Example, winning Agbami and Chevron scholarship or SPDC and SNEPCO can lead to automatic disqualification of both. You will actually be warned during application.

However, you can win multiple scholarships from different ventures. For instance, you can win Agbami, SPDC and MTN foundation too.

Conventional Scholarship Process in Nigeria

Let’s take a deeper look into the items because your success depends on them.

1.Publication and Application

First, you need to register to be notified via email or sms whenever a new application starts, its free, do not worry, just enter your email address below and confirm the subscription by clicking on the verification link on the email we will send to you.

Letter from Chief / Village head / Community Leader (LGA Certificate can suffice for most cases)

WAEC Result

Jamb Result

Your chances for being shortlisted / selected for screening depends largely on the authenticity, clearance and timeliness of your application. You will be required in most cases to provide scanned copies of the documents listed above.

Passports should be recent, coloured with white background and not your secondary school passport

Between 200KB – 1MB

SHORTLISTING/SELECTION

After you have submitted your application during the “window period”, the window is closed and the main deal starts: scrutinizing applications to select students for the next stage of the screening operation. After this stage, a list of students will be released, these people are said to be shortlisted / selected from the crowd of applications.

What decides who get selected?

Over the years and due to the experiences that I have gathered, I have come to the conclusion that the following factors have a role to play in who gets shortlisted, while this may not hold true for every scholarship program available as each program possesses their own uniqueness, you would be most prudent to consider it.

If you finally get selected, you should rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for you now stand a 70% chance of receiving the award, but if you are a member of mbscholars, you should be 90% glad because we equip our users with information that will make them stand out in the test.

SCREENING

This is the hot seat: the ultimate determinant of the award list. Usually, exams will be conducted and winners announced after a time, times and time. Lolz

If you are not conversant with the above topics, do not wait till tomorrow hurry now to mbscholars library and grab a copy of Gmats, it is free for registered users.

Abstract Reasoning

This tests your ability to observe patterns. You can check out abstract reasoning tests to grab familiarization on time. It is most popular in internship screening tests and dragnet powered scholarship exams.

This time, you have successfully passed the test but a thorough verification will be conducted on your credentials, I always advise students to use their actual GP not formulating high GPAs to be shortlisted, those records will be sent to your school without your notice for verification.

If successful, you would receive the award letter via email or through your institution and required in most cases to maintain a minimum GP so as to remain eligible for annual payment.

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